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AFP. 3 May 2002. Moderate Kosovo leader clashes with Milosevic in court. THE HAGUE -- Ibrahim Rugova, president of Kosovo and longtime leader of its ethnic Albanian majority, crossed swords with Slobodan Milosevic at the UN war crimes tribunal on Friday, accusing the former Yugoslav president of ordering massacres of his countrymen. In cross-examination, Milosevic hit back by accusing Rugova of being a pawn of "great powers" trying to implement their own agenda. Strengthened by the court's admonitions to Milosevic to ask only question that dealt directly with the indictment, Rugova repeatedly branded Milosevic's queries as irrelevant. "You seem to like that word 'relevant', Mr May uses it a lot too," Milosevic sneered. Milosevic quoted several newspaper articles and books charging that the Kosovo Liberation Army was a terrorist organisation funded by drug money and trained by foreign intelligence services in an overall plan to overthrow Serbia. "I don't know anything about that," said Rugova, dismissing the question. Milosevic went on to suggest that German support for Rugova's independence movement harked back to Albanian fascist militias which supported Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during World War II. Judge May cut off this line of questioning, deeming it irrelevant to the trial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
